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groups without mentioning the similarities? Puritanism, which encompasses the Puritans and the Pilgrim, was a group of disciples that split far from the Catholic Church after the English Reformation. Maxwell (2003) noted that: Puritanism in England was essentially a movement within the established church for the purifying of that church - for ministers godly and able to teach, for a simplifying of ritual, for a return to the virtues of primitive Christianity. There was nothing revolutionary…

proud excess, displaying sins such as emotions blatantly in writing and society, questioning God’s will, and placing scientific inquiry above God’s will. They have continued to politically bind the Puritanical Commonwealth to the Anglican-Catholic church and impose taxes on printing presses, leather, paper, and other products for the reproducing of the bible. They have withheld the bible from their populace, preventing them from learning and interpreting God’s will for themselves. They have…

France, she had a strong Catholic background. Many people were worried that she would influence his decisions and try to convert England away from Protestantism and back to Catholicism. King Charles money problems was the third spark. In England,…

survive. It all began with the corruption of the Catholic church and when Thomas Cartwright (An English Puritan) wanted to reform the church. In 1590 Thomas was arrested for trying to reform it. Thirty years after that the Mayflower left England in July of 1920 it had to turn back twice due to the other ship they were traveling with. The other ship leaked a little bit, and after their second time turning back they just left the leaky ship at England. They decided to have everybody…

eastern coast forming some of the first clearly defined regions of the United States. While both the New England colonies and the Chesapeake colonies had deep-seated aversion for the natives, they differed in their religious homogeneity and economic policies. The New England colonies were strictly Puritan whereas the Chesapeake colonies followed no universal religion; also, while the New England colonies relied on fishing, shipbuilding, and farming, the Chesapeake colonies relied on their…

Thomas Paine: Life and Religion. I do not believe in the creed professed by the Jewish Church, by the Roman Church, by the Greek Church, by the Turkish Church, by the Protestant Church, nor by any Church that I know of. My own mind is my own Church (Age of Reason, Pg.2). Born in Thetford, England, Thomas Paine (1707-1809) was a crucial figure in the Age of Enlightenment. He was an important figure in politics and in literature. He wrote great novels such as the age of reason, rights of man,…

The time period was the early 17th century. A group of people traveled on a ship to the New World. They all came over looking for a new way of life and religious freedom. Religion is what drove them all out of England to North America. The all left England to escape religious persecution. Massachusetts back in the early 1600’s wasn’t like it is today. It wasn’t a small state that had a land area of approximately 10,000 square miles. It stretched across most of the north eastern part of the…

under the rule of the British monarchy and Parliament. Throughout the late 17th and early 18th centuries, the British government established a salutary neglect policy, which meant that the colonies in the New World had to be obedient and loyal to England, without the need of the…

colonies were New England and the Chesapeake. These two areas were built along the Atlantic Coast, housing hundreds of European settlers. However, as the people of New England and the Chesapeake began to construct societies of their own, the differences between the two colonies escalated. The differences between the European societies were due to the contrasting reasons for settlement in the Americas. This prompted the two colonies to establish differing societies. New England and the Chesapeake…

New England and the Chesapeake were two regions that lied on the east coast of America. The people that settled in these regions were of English origin. Later on in time New England and Chesapeake started growing two different identities. People left their homes with family and all ,then they embarked on a journey to the new world. Some people went to the north for religious freedom, while some went south on a quest to find money. Massachusetts and New England were both just two regions on a…